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Collection of original photographs includes:

Boxing photographs featuring Max Schmeling:

• Two studio photos of Schmeling. Each 25x20.5 cm (10x8") photo of him posing. With his information printed at bottom margin, "Leading Heavyweight Contender." Photograph by Bryant, N.Y. Dated 1928 in ink on verso.
• 25x20.5 cm (10x8") photo of him boxing at Lakewood 1929 (blurry). With a small tear at edge.
• 20x25.5 cm (8x10") photo of Schmeling with Joe Jacobs and Max Machon in Endicott, NY, 1930. Ink note on verso, plus rubberstamp from International News Photos, Inc.
• Schmeling posing with several children. 14.5x23.5 cm (5¾x9¼") mounted to paper. Dated 1929 in ink on verso.
• Schmeling walking up to his bout at Lakewood, 1929. 14.5x23.5 cm (5¾x9¼") mounted to paper. June 1929.
• Schmeling doing exercise drills aboard the St. Louis Hamburg. 12x17 cm (4¾x6¾"). Dated 1930.
• 3 small snap shots of Schmeling pictured with German cyclist Otto Petri, plus others. 6.5x10.5 cm (2½x4¼"). Dated 1929.
• Smeling aboard the New York Hamburg ship. 13x18 cm (5x7"). Dated 1930.
• Snap shot of Schmeling in NY with a few friends. 11.5x9 cm (4½x3½"). 1930.

Cycling photographs:

• 2 real photograph post cards of Otto Petri in 1929-1930 (dates in ink on versos), plus 1 original photograph of Petri on his bicycle  with Tony Beckman in Mohawk Velodrome, Summer 1929 (ink note on verso).
• 2 larger photographs of Petri on board the ship "Bremen" in April, 1930 (per ink note on verso). 17.7x13 cm (7x5").

Boxing photographs:

• 2 photographs of Dr. Ludwig Haymann, Heavyweight Champion of Germany. Photographed by Bryant, N.Y. 20.3x12.3 cm (8x4¾"). Date 1929 (in ink on versos).
• Jack Sharkey in NY, 1930. Photo with rubbesrtamp of International News Photos, Inc. on verso and ink note. 25x20 cm (9¾x8").
• Ernst Guhring, posing in his boxing gear. 23x10 cm (9x4"). No date c. 1930.

A nice collection of original photographs and related materials of champion boxer Max Schmeling and his publicity tour during 1928-29 including many images of Schmeling with friends in Lakewood, where he trained. The lot includes some important related ephemera:

• a rare original program for the Schmeling-Heuser bout on July 2, 1929.
• 2 typed letters, signed by Schmeling. From 1935-1936 on his letterhead.
• 2 original newspaper articles clipped from a German newspaper.